David Remnick

Editor, The New Yorker

John Zogby

Trendspotter & Leading Pollster

Tiffany Shlain

Founder of The Webby Awards; Emmy-Nominated Filmmaker, Bestselling Author, Internet Pioneer & Futurist

Tim O'Brien

Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist for "The Things They Carried"

Raj Patel

Award-Winning Writer, Food Politics Activist, Filmmaker & Academic

Jonathan Haidt

Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University, Stern School of Business; Author of NYT Bestseller "The Righteous Mind"

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Aubrey de Grey

Biomedical Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation; Researcher on Preventing Aging

Peter Diamandis

Founder & Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation; Author; Named One of The World's 50 Greatest Leaders

Sherman Alexie

Poet, Short Story Writer, Novelist, and Performer

Stephen Walt

Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University

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Melissa Chiu

Museum Director, Asia Society

Tom Freston

Principal, Firefly3; Former CEO, Viacom Inc.

Gillian Caldwell

CEO of Global Witness

Sharon Gannon

Co-Founder, Jivamukti Yoga

Patrick Byrne

Founder & CEO, Overstock.com

Keith Gessen

Author; Editor-In-Chief, n+1

Michael Walzer

Professor Emeritus, The Institute for Advanced Study

Matthew C. Nisbet

Professor of Communication, American University

George Rupp

President & CEO, International Rescue Committee

Philip Weiss

Writer; Founder, Mondoweiss

Gay Talese

Author

Richard Dowden

Director, Royal African Society

David Rieff

Author, Journalist

Jason Christopher Hartley

Infantryman, New York Army National Guard

Jacob Appel

Bioethicist and Writer

Siri Hustvedt

Novelist

Nancy Sherman

Philosopher and Author, “The Untold War”

David Bellos

Translator

Slavoj Žižek

Philosopher & International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities

Robert Greene

New York Times Bestselling Author of "The 48 Laws of Power," "The Art of Seduction," "The 33 Strategies of War," and "The 50th Law"